Minister for Energy Department, KJ Geroge on Friday announced that the state government is committed to providing seven hours of continuous power supply output in a day to farmers, and that the government is expediting works related to solarization of agricultural feeders.

Four officials of the Fort Police Station here have been suspended in connection with an alleged custodial torture incident, police said on Friday.

 A 23-year-old woman was raped twice in a day in separate places by her boyfriend and a stranger offering help and then thrown off a four-storey building, leading to her death, in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district, police said on Friday.

The Supreme Court on Friday asked a high-powered committee, which was constituted to amicably resolve the grievances of the farmers who held an agitation at the Shambhu border between Punjab and Haryana in 2024, to submit its report-cum-recommendations.

 NABARD on Thursday projected a priority sector credit potential of Rs 4.99 lakh crore for Karnataka for the financial year 2026-27, registering a 12 per cent increase over the projections made for the previous fiscal.

The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) will start a fellowship programme for journalists from next session for specialisation in certain fields like technology, economy and strategy, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday.

An employee and his friend were arrested for allegedly stealing Rs 91.76 lakh from a private firm here where the former worked as a cashier, police said on Friday.

Bengaluru City Police on Friday said 16 people, including two women were arrested allegedly for drug peddling and contraband worth Rs 5.24 crore have been seized.